We’re off and running! Week one of tournament one of season one.
More stress than a thoroughly gaslighted Harry Maguire must be feeling. More passionate responses to your first shots than this guy swearing his head off at Saka banging one in this weekend.
We welcome new challenger Tightly to the ranks during what is, frankly, a confusing week of scoring. Very impressive points all round – and yet shock batterings for Aston Villa and a Harry Kane ‘inspired’ Bayern Munich mean there are negative goal differences all over that table.
Except at the top, that is. Where our reigning Masters Series Champions, DebLasso, kick off the first ‘proper’ season as they finished the test one – looking down from atop the leaderboard. Three wins and two draws enough for a two point cushion at the top as we head into the middle week of the Spanish Open.
And while it’s still pretty much wide open, her main rival from last season, Absolutely Fabregas, starts at the foot of the table, five points off the pace. It really is still up for grabs though – no end of testing ties to pick from this week- taking us from Glasgow to Paris to our host city Madrid to, em, Swindon.
Plenty to play for, then. Who’ll be the most bullish of our Madridista matadors?* Who’ll channel their inner Nadal and grind this out like it’s a clay-court five-setter? We’ll know a lot more by the time we finish week two – good luck, one and all!
| Fortress Spain: Season 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Pos | Player | Total Points | Total GD | Total SS | GW3 Points | GW3 GD | GW3 SS | GW2 Points | GW2 GD | GW2 SS | GW1 Points | GW1 GD | GW1 SS | |||
| 1 | fc bomhonk | 28 | 7 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | guardiola's giants | 27 | 9 | 13 | 6 | -1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 8 | -1 | 2 | |||
| 3 | the david r | 25 | 5 | 18 | 5 | -3 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 4 | |||
| 4 | whitecaribbean a-stars | 23 | 5 | 14 | 7 | -1 | 4 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 5 | -3 | 8 | |||
| 5 | deblassofc | 21 | 4 | 18 | 7 | -1 | 7 | 3 | -1 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | |||
| 6 | absolutely fabregas | 21 | 3 | 9 | 7 | -2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 6 | -3 | 7 | |||
| 7 | cheese fc | 19 | -5 | 18 | 7 | -1 | 6 | 6 | -4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 7 | |||
| 8 | tightly | 18 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 6 | -2 | 6 | |||
| 9 | rock and iraola | 16 | -3 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 2 | -1 | 6 | 5 | -3 | 8 | |||